Creating HTML links

A link between pages is called an anchor.
You can think of anchors as ``active footnotes.''

Anchors (which appear as blue, red, or otherwise highlighted text) are the real
innovation of the Web. They can point to any type of document, on
any computer in the world. Some examples of what anchors can point to are:

It pays to be clever with URLs when writing HTML documents

It's good to remember that not everybody will be accessing your pages through
a server. WWW client programs are smart enough to use the local filesystem,
if you use the correct abbreviation. The following all point to the
same information:
Advertizing to the world:http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/sas/www/home.html

Someone offsite with afs access:/afs/cs.cmu.edu/usr/sas/www/home.html

Another file in the same directory:home.html

You could use any of these three URLs when you create a document, but the
best one to use is the shortest one (relative pathname). That way you
don't force everybody to use the server when they read your data, it's
easier to move files around if you decide to reorganize, and you
keep the load low on the server that outside people must use;
everybody's happy.
mwm@cs.cmu.edu